By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada is one of five states that were chosen to work with the Vera Institute of Justice on ways to reduce the use of solitary confinement in the state prison system, the Department of Corrections said Tuesday. “With Vera’s assistance, Nevada will be better-equipped to both […]
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It’s going to cost Liberty Utilities customers more to keep the lights on and heat their homes and offices starting Jan. 1. Average residential and small commercial customers will see an increase of less than 1 percent, while average medium and large commercial customers will see increases of approximately 16 percent and 17 percent, respectively. […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal A leading association for the gambling industry is hopeful that a Trump administration will be huge for gaming. Increased mainstream acceptance of gambling, combined with the results of the presidential election, represent an opportunity to push key goals for the industry on a wide range of issues, including regulations and […]
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By Dan Michalsky, Las Vegas Sun Founded by a group of former Google engineers, self-driving trucking startup Otto blazed through Nevada in 2016 and left behind some serious tread. Otto launched in January, and by May the San Francisco-based company had conducted the first-ever test run of an 18-wheeler, on an interstate outside of Reno, with […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – While there are 178 thresholds the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is trying to achieve, it was traffic-transportation that garnered the most discussion this month. The Governing Board adopted the 2015 Threshold Evaluation Report at its meeting last week. Within all of those standards are nine categories: air quality, water quality, […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown, rallying a room of scientists with his most heated rhetoric yet on the topic, suggested California would defy the federal government should President-elect Donald Trump impede the state’s efforts to thwart climate change. “We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the lawyers and we’re ready to fight. We’re […]
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By Zac Mooney, KTVN-TV Rep. Mark Amodei, D-Carson City, was one of Donald Trump’s biggest Nevada supporters during the presidential campaign and he says he will use any favor with the new administration to help Nevadans. He says when the next congressional session starts Jan. 3, the top priorities will be tax, health care and […]
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By Jane E. Brody, New York Times Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of the deadliest time of the year. Cold kills, and I don’t mean just extreme cold and crippling blizzards. I mean ordinary winter cold, like that typically experienced, chronically or episodically, by people in every state but Hawaii […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s cannabis industry wants to be tested. Hoping to avoid the pitfalls seen in other states that have legalized marijuana, several in Nevada’s marijuana industry want the state’s stringent testing of medical marijuana products to be carried over to the recreational market. Doing so is essential to protecting the […]
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El Dorado County received approximately $200,000 from CalFire to help low income senior citizens remove dying trees that endanger their residence. Specifics about the program will come in February when the county receives the money. The dollar amount is the maximum the county could have gotten from the state agency. Another $868,840 was obtained by the […]
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